Quotes About Understanding

It's not your job to get people to like you, it's your job to like people.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.

Nobody understands your life, but you.

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

The most difficult thing for people to do is hear their own soul.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.